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- English Word Precipitous Definition Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.
- English Word Precipitous Definition Headlong; as, precipitous fall.
- English Word Precipitous Definition Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts.
- English Word Precis Definition A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.
- English Word Precise Definition Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.
- English Word Precise Definition Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.
- English Word Precisian Definition One who limits, or restrains.
- English Word Precisian Definition An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans.
- English Word Precisianism Definition The quality or state of being a precisian; the practice of a precisian.
- English Word Precisianist Definition A precisian.
- English Word Precision Definition The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.
- English Word Precisive Definition Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction.
- English Word Preclude Definition To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.
- English Word Preclude Definition To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.
- English Word Precluded Definition of Preclude
- English Word Precluding Definition of Preclude
- English Word Preclusion Definition The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.
- English Word Preclusive Definition Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering.
- English Word Precoce Definition Precocious.
- English Word Precoces Definition Same as Praecoces.